A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The 56 Indian businesses surveyed in 2004-05 expressed some concern over the impact of HIV/AIDS. Of these, 46 per cent report some current effect of the virus on their company, with 14 per cent reporting 'serious effects.'
'We are going ahead with the trials assuming what we have is the vaccine.' 'There is also a chance that what you have is not the vaccine. Then, you have to go back to the drawing board again.' 'So far, there has been no success in developing a good vaccine against coronaviruses.' 'That's why there are hundreds of trials going on at different stages in different parts of the world.'
With 125 of its personnel already having been detected positive for HIV/AIDS, the top brass of the force has realised the vulnerability of the CRPF personnel to the deadly ailment.
The filmmaker talks about his new feature film.
'If we cannot handle an epidemic of that strata, (causing that kind) of excessive calamity, then we really have to prevent it.' 'If we become complacent in even preventing it, then we are in for a disaster.'
Only patients developing severe illness or having compromised immunity will have to test negative through RT-PCR test before being discharged by a hospital, the Union health ministry said.
Hepatitis B virus is 10 times more infectious than hepatitis C virus and 50-100 times more infectious than HIV.
As the brand ambassador of UNAIDS, the actress visited Sion hospital on World AIDS day.
Filmmaker Roopa Iyer talks about her new film.
Narinder Mehra of the AIIMS said the bad genes also cause rapid progression of the infection to full blown AIDS.
Indian pharmaceutical companies are heavily dependent on China to source fermentation-based active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates to manufacture these medicines, but the coronavirus outbreak there has disrupted the supply.
'Ignorance isn't a problem when it's a question of common citizens having forgotten (or never learnt) middle school science.' 'It becomes a problem when it's displayed by policymakers and people of some influence,' says Devangshu Datta.
The ministry has removed its earlier recommendation of the use of anti-HIV drug combinations Lopinavir and Ritonavir on a case-to-case basis depending upon the severity of the condition of a patient suffering from coronavirus infection.
'The likelihood he may get out of the legal process has driven them to eliminate him,' alleges Telgi lawyer M T Nanaiah.
Irdai has listed diseases that can't be excluded from health insurance policies, including neurodevelopmental disorders, mental illness problems, psychological disorders, genetic diseases, puberty- and menopause-related disorders.
The Bombay high court has held that a HIV positive person cannot be barred from taking up a job solely on the ground that he/she is suffering from the dreaded disease.
Stylist and fashion show director, Sunil Menon talks about the fallout of the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding Article 377.
The guidelines stated that systemic oral steroids are not indicated in mild cases and if the symptoms (persistent fever, worsening cough etc.) persist beyond seven days, the treating doctor should be consulted for treatment with low-dose oral steroids.
The Biden administration has come under criticism from several quarters, including from members and supporters of the Democratic party, for not releasing surplus COVID-19 vaccines to India when the country is experiencing its worst-ever public health crisis.
'Until the case load starts dropping, we will have to keep up the current level of prevention activities.'
The quaint little village of Perumapalayam near Erode is excited about Indian American, Dr Celine Gounder making it to the United States President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 advisory board since she has her roots in it and for her continuing support to its residents.
We must resist the temptation to look at the absolute numbers being vaccinated, and focus instead on the percentage of the population vaccinated, he said in his letter.
God is a rockstar for Mexican Catholic priest Adolofo Huerta, known as "Gofo", who likes rock music, dyes his hair red, dresses in black, and enjoys riding his motorcycle.
'At the same time, if we are a little careless, we will run into trouble. No doubt about that.'
The month-long winter session of Parliament, which begins on Wednesday, is expected to be a stormy one with opposition parties determined to corner the government on several issues, including the issue of demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, which has caused massive outrage across the nation.
'The COVID-19 virus has the power to quietly enter your body, without causing pain via symptoms, because it craftily manipulates your pain response.'
'It is sad that Kerala had so many Covid patients which is primarily due to the mismanagement of the Left government.' 'The technical committee was full of CPI-M leaders who happen to have medical degrees with no experience in public health.' 'They were advising the CM and we are paying for those mistakes.'
The life imprisonment given to 17 of the 19 convicts in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case was on Thursday upheld by the Supreme Court, but the apex court freed one of them by reducing his sentence saying being an HIV positive patient, his was a "special circumstance".
In the third part of a series on Indian Americans who have won the George Marshall Scholarship in 2012, Arthur J Pais profiles Rahul Rekhi, a biomedical engineering graduate who wants to revolutionise healthcare and find ways to tackle diseases like cancer and stroke.
2.3 million people are opioid-dependent. 860,000 people are opioid users. 123,000 people are heroin-dependent.
